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Rapid growth of Utarget plc is strengthened with second senior appointment

Strengthened by the seven-figure sale of its media website, 50Connect, Utarget plc consolidates its position and stimulates further growth with the appointment of a new sales manager, Rob Edwards.

Edwards will be responsible for driving sales of Utarget’s newly launched UTVsubs network. UTVsubs is the UK’s first online TV advertising network and kicks off this week with a campaign for Ocean Finance which will run on itv.com.

Edwards, former head of the new business development department of SIRS, and more recently, business development manager at Saltmine, joins David Michael as the second member of the Utarget management team to be recruited within the last two months.

Phil Cooper, managing director of Utarget, comments: “Rob’s track record of expanding sales in the radio industry will be invaluable to this new venture. UTVsubs is pioneering new business in an area which has not yet been tapped into and I am very pleased to have Rob onboard to shake up the industry.”

Edwards comments, “As sales manager for UTVsubs I will be responsible for growing this new area of business. As a first to the UK, UTVsubs has enormous potential and I look forward to building on this and generating sales for Utarget.”

Established in 1998, Utarget plc and its divisions, Utarget Media and Utarget Networks provide advertisers and their agencies with distinctive and unique online advertising propositions via their owned and externally managed networks, ad technology and media to deliver web advertising opportunities.

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Editor’s notes

About Utarget plc
Trading for five years, with an annual turnover of £2.5m, Utarget plc is one of the UK’s largest product-led, new media sales houses.

The company provides advertisers, and their agencies, with distinctive and unique methods of advertising online. Utarget plc utilises owned and externally managed networks, ad technology and media to deliver web advertising opportunities. The premise behind its range of activities is to offer brands, media and advertising that are targeted, effective and proven to work.

The division, Utarget Networks, represents the company’s network of advertising products from subsites, UTsubs and UTVsubs, through to contextual advertising, UTcontextual. Products are primarily based on full screen web advertising using a variety of owned, managed and proprietary networks. The combined networks are managed across 500 of the UK’s top websites, reaching more than 15million users a month (57% of the internet population).

The Utarget Media division houses online consumer-centric media owned by the company (such as Travelconnect), alongside niche media that is managed by the company (50Connect). UTmedia also sells advertising inventory for a catalogue of carefully selected websites.